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womanofthehills

(10,883 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 04:37 PM 22 hrs ago

BREAKING - New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation int

🚨 BREAKING: Former New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation into sex trafficking at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in 2019 — promising to share information in return.

They never did.

"Cooperation was a one-way relationship."
New Mexico handed over police reports, witness interviews & investigative records to the Southern District of New York. In return? Silence.

Balderas urged feds to SEIZE Zorro Ranch in 2020 to preserve criminal evidence — files, video recordings. No response.

None of NM's investigative records appear among the 3M+ pages DOJ released last month.

The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody.

Now NM AG Raúl Torrez is reopening the probe and a legislative truth-finding commission with subpoena power has been formed.

The investigation should have been BROADENED, not narrowed.

Who was being protected?


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BREAKING - New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation int (Original Post) womanofthehills 22 hrs ago OP
Get a warrant and some cadaver dogs out there. Ritabert 22 hrs ago #1
Now not yesterday orangecrush 21 hrs ago #11
Exactly. Ritabert 19 hrs ago #39
And stop alerting any perpetrators in advance of any enforcement action...n/t the nelm 8 hrs ago #50
Yes! Ritabert 5 hrs ago #54
This. Joinfortmill 6 hrs ago #53
Wonder who was president in 2019? sinkingfeeling 22 hrs ago #2
Came here to ask the same question.. maspaha 21 hrs ago #6
And do these timelines coincide with Elon Musk running rampant through any thing he pleased? BattleRow 21 hrs ago #10
Well, it certainly coincides with Bill Barr as AG radical noodle 16 hrs ago #44
Amazing the total connections. I think Epstein was a world-class psychopath. OAITW r.2.0 13 hrs ago #47
Biden was sworn into office in January, 2021. OrangeJoe 12 hrs ago #49
Exactly dss 6 hrs ago #52
Right? How come I haven't seen a single article intheflow 4 hrs ago #55
Enough Whip-poor-will 22 hrs ago #3
Don't forget the agencies who supplied the help Lifeafter70 19 hrs ago #30
Hmmm, wasn't Trump President in 2019? surfered 21 hrs ago #4
Wow, that's damning. highplainsdem 21 hrs ago #5
Jesus Christ! bluestarone 21 hrs ago #7
Our tax dollars are going to protect pedophiles and murderers. MLWR 21 hrs ago #8
Wasn't the Attorney General at the time Retrograde 21 hrs ago #9
There's most definitely quite a few other rich & powerful people being protected besides tRump groundloop 21 hrs ago #18
William Barr's father gave Epstein a teaching position at the prestigious Dalton academy, even though Epstein dlk 20 hrs ago #25
Bill Barr was the AG at the time. ShazzieB 19 hrs ago #33
Bill Barr had a reputation to protect. . . His family's name MagickMuffin 19 hrs ago #35
Yes! radical noodle 16 hrs ago #45
Raul Torres! Clouds Passing 21 hrs ago #12
Rec. Rec. Rec malaise 21 hrs ago #13
Here's the whole post canetoad 21 hrs ago #14
dead victims buried. Check Drumph golf courses (19th hole). Oh wait. that would require a DOJ that actually did that. Evolve Dammit 21 hrs ago #15
"The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody." Botany 21 hrs ago #16
Appears a MAGA funder is buying Zorro ranch and excavating as we type. Any info? Evolve Dammit 21 hrs ago #17
yes NJCher 20 hrs ago #24
Don Huffines is running for state wide office. MagickMuffin 19 hrs ago #37
He's owned it since 2023. intheflow 3 hrs ago #56
The guy is running as state comptroller in Texas. nt Trueblue Texan 2 hrs ago #58
This whole fucking story makes me bluestarone 21 hrs ago #19
Just some raping, kidnapping, and killing of young girls as part of the largest criminal syndicate in history Botany 20 hrs ago #21
Yea. I did NOT realize THIS was from bluestarone 20 hrs ago #23
Yes, screaming hypocrisy Gum Logger 1 hr ago #62
Epstein had a central role in what is most likely the biggest criminal organization the world has ever known. patphil 20 hrs ago #20
He knew many names, that's for sure. bluestarone 20 hrs ago #27
And has anyone else been struck by how sloppy the work was if they were Trueblue Texan 2 hrs ago #59
A lot of theories here but MadameButterfly 20 hrs ago #29
Bill Barr is part of the conspiracy and coverup MagickMuffin 19 hrs ago #38
He is a senior Opus Dei member. They are no angels. SharonAnn 2 hrs ago #60
Mormon Complex? czarjak 20 hrs ago #22
??? niyad 19 hrs ago #40
Looks like the Eldorado, Texas compound from awhile back. czarjak 16 hrs ago #43
K&R spanone 20 hrs ago #26
DOJ did the same thing to New York/county DA. Justice 20 hrs ago #28
Quick- start a war! SamuelTheThird 19 hrs ago #31
Kick dalton99a 19 hrs ago #32
Traitors gonna hang out with traitors. Figuratively, of course. usonian 19 hrs ago #34
How did Epstein have the time to do all of this crime? HoosierDebbie 19 hrs ago #36
Crime was basically his job for years radical noodle 16 hrs ago #46
Won't be long before something turns up Blue Owl 18 hrs ago #41
"Who was being protected?" Wednesdays 18 hrs ago #42
In 2019??? Remind me who was AG in 2019...? Grins 12 hrs ago #48
huffines, the rich texas lacks, has already removed the bodies. nt Javaman 7 hrs ago #51
Another Kavanaugh-type "investigation." Martin68 3 hrs ago #57
Do you have a link the the original news piece? This Sayer Ji guy is a MAHA COVID19 conspiracist LymphocyteLover 1 hr ago #61
Here: CoopersDad 1 hr ago #63
Thanks! LymphocyteLover 36 min ago #64
SDNY needs to get completely cleaned the fuck out by the next Democratic administration. W_HAMILTON 34 min ago #65

BattleRow

(2,213 posts)
10. And do these timelines coincide with Elon Musk running rampant through any thing he pleased?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:47 PM
21 hrs ago

radical noodle

(10,548 posts)
44. Well, it certainly coincides with Bill Barr as AG
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:45 PM
16 hrs ago

whose father hired Epstein at the Dalton school to teach the children of the wealthy when Epstein didn't have the credentials to do so. It was the place where Epstein first acquired rich mentors.

OAITW r.2.0

(31,932 posts)
47. Amazing the total connections. I think Epstein was a world-class psychopath.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 01:29 AM
13 hrs ago

Just like Trump and Putin and Netanya. People. aspiring to power, gravitate to this political ideal: only my idea makes sense.

OrangeJoe

(557 posts)
49. Biden was sworn into office in January, 2021.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 02:31 AM
12 hrs ago

Look I loath Trump and his gang of grifting racist criminals. But god damn it why didn't the Biden Department of Justice react to the information that was available to them? Epstein was (supposedly) dead, his crimes were well known, the FBI had tons of information on him i.e. the files that are trickling out now, yet no one did a bloody thing about it!

I don't buy the "Maxwell was working the appeals process" because there were millions of documents that had nothing to do with her case. Besides a convicted defendant cannot introduce new evidence in an appeal so releasing the files wouldn't have affected her appeal at all.

I'd really like to see an actual reason why Garland sat on this.

intheflow

(30,127 posts)
55. Right? How come I haven't seen a single article
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:06 AM
4 hrs ago

make that connection. It wasn’t Obama or Biden - and that’s a big tell.

Whip-poor-will

(26 posts)
3. Enough
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:02 PM
22 hrs ago

Since trumps judge cannon nullified the special council report , therefore the usefulness of that office,on trump the next step has to be a watergate style congressional hearing about the rape ring rapists, doctors who treated the girls, the officials stopping investigations , who's hiding and breaking the law on releasing the files and dead little girls the whole shooting match .

This war distraction is enough for me let the slime rip .

Lifeafter70

(885 posts)
30. Don't forget the agencies who supplied the help
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:12 PM
19 hrs ago

Housekeepers, gardeners ect
The help hears e everything.

Retrograde

(11,407 posts)
9. Wasn't the Attorney General at the time
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:41 PM
21 hrs ago

the son of Epstein's first major employer, the school principal who hired him without any academic qualifications? Small world, isn't it.

groundloop

(13,725 posts)
18. There's most definitely quite a few other rich & powerful people being protected besides tRump
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:06 PM
21 hrs ago

There has been quite a series of 'coincidences' happen to keep the truth hidden.

dlk

(13,219 posts)
25. William Barr's father gave Epstein a teaching position at the prestigious Dalton academy, even though Epstein
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:40 PM
20 hrs ago

Didn't have a degree. There is so much more to all of this. We may never know the full scope.

ShazzieB

(22,464 posts)
33. Bill Barr was the AG at the time.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:18 PM
19 hrs ago

He replaced Sessions in Fenruary 2019 and stayed until almost to the end of Trump's first term. And yes, Barr's father was headmaster of the school where Epstein taught in the 1970s. Barr also previously worked at a law firm that once represented Epstein. Calls were made for him to recuse himself from the Epstein case due to possible conflicts of interest, but he ignored them.

MagickMuffin

(18,311 posts)
35. Bill Barr had a reputation to protect. . . His family's name
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:42 PM
19 hrs ago


Plus Don Barr wrote the bible for Epstein’s escapades of their depraved terrorism.





canetoad

(20,598 posts)
14. Here's the whole post
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 05:59 PM
21 hrs ago

From Twit. Bold is mine.

Sayer Ji
@sayerjigmi
🚨 BREAKING: Former New Mexico AG Hector Balderas reveals federal prosecutors asked his office to HALT its investigation into sex trafficking at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in 2019 — promising to share information in return.

They never did.

"Cooperation was a one-way relationship."
New Mexico handed over police reports, witness interviews & investigative records to the Southern District of New York. In return? Silence.

Balderas urged feds to SEIZE Zorro Ranch in 2020 to preserve criminal evidence — files, video recordings. No response.

None of NM's investigative records appear among the 3M+ pages DOJ released last month.

The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody.

Now NM AG Raúl Torrez is reopening the probe and a legislative truth-finding commission with subpoena power has been formed.

The investigation should have been BROADENED, not narrowed.

Who was being protected?

Evolve Dammit

(21,704 posts)
15. dead victims buried. Check Drumph golf courses (19th hole). Oh wait. that would require a DOJ that actually did that.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:03 PM
21 hrs ago

Botany

(76,992 posts)
16. "The investigation was "gutted" just weeks before Epstein died in custody."
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:03 PM
21 hrs ago

Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a sex trafficker. He was a switchboard — routing government secrets, Wall Street intelligence, and political power.

The Trump, Epstein, Vlad, Musk, and Bibi child sex trafficking network was part of the largest
criminal syndicate in history. Trump being President is an example of it.

NJCher

(42,935 posts)
24. yes
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:27 PM
20 hrs ago

there was a post here telling how the county had stopped any work or excavation on the place.

MagickMuffin

(18,311 posts)
37. Don Huffines is running for state wide office.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:47 PM
19 hrs ago


His son Russell works for the current administration.

Don Huffines is a Nazi, white christian nationalist. And he’s extremely creepy looking.


intheflow

(30,127 posts)
56. He's owned it since 2023.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:14 AM
3 hrs ago

Not selling any time soon, actively working to block investigations.

Botany

(76,992 posts)
21. Just some raping, kidnapping, and killing of young girls as part of the largest criminal syndicate in history
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:22 PM
20 hrs ago

but then again Trump was caught with boxes of America’s top secrets which he was selling
and or giving to the Russians and nothing happened to him.

Remember about Hillary’s emails? Now, there was a crime.

bluestarone

(21,948 posts)
23. Yea. I did NOT realize THIS was from
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:25 PM
20 hrs ago

2019!! Just cannot believe this shit. Plus now a MAGA bought the property. YUCK!!!

patphil

(8,927 posts)
20. Epstein had a central role in what is most likely the biggest criminal organization the world has ever known.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:22 PM
20 hrs ago

My guess is that the Russians ran it, and Epstein acted as a coordinator and facilitator. The more I see, the more I realize that Trump had a role, but certainly wasn't running the show.
His job was to get elected with the help of Russia and a whole bunch of oligarch wanna bees, and then gut the US government from within so they couldn't take any meaningful action against them. The more I see, the more it looks like Merrick Garland was blocked from doing his job...perhaps blackmailed into standing down.
William Barr was in the same boat with Garland.

As it looks now, Trump's cabinet probably has several members of this international cabal in it, and several others who are either willing to work for them, or are badly compromised. I also think a lot of the republicans in Congress have been compromised and aren't willing to act for fear of having things come out that would ruin them.

Our challenge is to stand and deliver. We never had a bigger choice in our lives. What happens in the next 3 years will determine, not just the fate of the US, but the fate of the whole free world.
If the US falls, the rest of the world will follow.

Trueblue Texan

(4,358 posts)
59. And has anyone else been struck by how sloppy the work was if they were
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 12:29 PM
2 hrs ago

...trying to make it look like a suicide? No one bothered making plausible explanations for all the "coincidences" that had to occur for his "suicide". They knew it wouldn't really matter. There would be no consequences. The photo of Epstein showed a distinct mark at the base of his neck in the front, just above the front triangle of the neck, not higher up where a noose would be unless he hung himself in an upset down position. Also supposedly he hung himself with a bed sheet, yet the mark was quite thin as though it was made with a wire.

No one tried to explain these obvious discrepancies to the "official" story and my guess is because they really didn't care what people thought. They knew they would not be held accountable.

MadameButterfly

(3,962 posts)
29. A lot of theories here but
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:03 PM
20 hrs ago

the only thing for sure is we have to get to the bottom of it.

Garland did appoint Jack Smith which someone really complicit just wouldn't do. Barr on the other hand lied about the Mueller report and seems to have been willing to close down any investigations Trump didn't like. All we have on Garland is he was slow. I'd need more evidence to believe he actively avoided doing his job.

MagickMuffin

(18,311 posts)
38. Bill Barr is part of the conspiracy and coverup
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:51 PM
19 hrs ago


His family are no angels. They are perverted people.


czarjak

(13,564 posts)
43. Looks like the Eldorado, Texas compound from awhile back.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:17 PM
16 hrs ago

Sexual Abusers have a lot in common when it comes to abodes.

Justice

(7,254 posts)
28. DOJ did the same thing to New York/county DA.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 06:49 PM
20 hrs ago

Shocking.

Bill Barr needs to come back before the Committee. I want to read the transcript of his original testimony.

HoosierDebbie

(450 posts)
36. How did Epstein have the time to do all of this crime?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 07:42 PM
19 hrs ago

I don't understand how Epstein could have had time to do all of this criming! Many of the involved people must have done their own part to help...as Maxwell did. No wonder there are millions of more un-released documents.

radical noodle

(10,548 posts)
46. Crime was basically his job for years
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:59 PM
16 hrs ago

but he didn't do it all. There were lots of fingers in that criminal pie.

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